Official software

Open the device (remove back cover)

To access the onboard peripherals the back cover of the Kobo Aura has to be removed. This is tricky, more than with previous Kobo because there are no screws and the grooves that keep the back cover and the front panel together are fairly tight.

The back cover can be popped out proceeding on the 4 sides of the cover with a very thin tool used as a lever to loosen the grooves one by one.

NOTE – There is a high probability to end up with a bit scratched cover. Also the edges of the cover could result a little deformed because they are very thin.

Write .img to SD card

Update the Kobo

The method used by the Kobo Touch to upgrade its firmware is quite simple: If the file .kobo/KoboRoot.tgz is found in the Kobo’s public partition, then the .tgz file is extracted to the root of the internal system partition. By editing some of the files within KoboRoot.tgz, we can fairly easily enable telnet and ftp access, giving us root privileges.